Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker

Abstract: Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment
in which agents with limited resources will require
external support to help them become context-aware.
In this paper, we describe an agent based architecture called
Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) to help these agents
to acquire, reason about and share context knowledge. A
key component in our architecture is an explicit context ontology
defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
This ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents,
places, and presentation events. We also describe a use case
scenario and prototype design of CoBrA in an intelligent
meeting room environment.